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There's only one true destructinator
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WIN+D
Unless you are like me and told your desktop not to show icons. The you have to look for them in windows explorer.
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Some users are Doing it Right, some of them are Doing it Wrong.
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Which is which is a matter of perspective.
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Sure, that's what the Doing it Wrong guys always say!
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Of course Microsoft wants to "help" you. It is like the expression "I'm from the government and I am here to help you."
Run. Run fast!
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I read an article lately that references a book I should find the title of and locate, but the gist of it was that through machines and computers, our society, especially in the corporate sector, has been optimised for efficiency to the point that we have lost the human flexibility necessary to absorb failures.
Which is why we can't take risks anymore.
Also we only employ humans for jobs we haven't managed to make a robot for yet.
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Like just in time manufacturing - of hard drives a few years back when that tsunami hit, resulting in a major shortage of hard drives?
There's your corporate "efficiency." That's why so many companies die in recessions - no capacity planning, DR planning or reserves to absorb mistakes or environmental {can't quite think of the right word...downturn? Suppression? Adverse turn of events?)
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Meanwhile, I'm saddened by the number of people who appeared to whoosh on Jaloopa's posts suggesting that this desktop cleanup process be handled by a wizard.
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The only adequate option out of the three: Silver, Bubblegum, and Diarrhoea.
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Like I said: Toxic.
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Does WinD not do that (repeat to restore)? Been a while since I've tried to do that on Windows, but I thought it did. I have a "Show the Desktop" thingy pinned to my KDE taskbar, and I thought it worked like WinD on Windows. Actually, once you click on something on the desktop in KDE, your windows are restored.
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Opening a window overwrites Win+D's "memory".
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Figures.
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Same with the shake-shake thing (which minimizes all windows but the one you're in).
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Oh god, I hate that stuff.
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yep. it do that. thats why i like it. no need to worry about your mouse. ;-)
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I wonder how much Windows 10 might help though, reviews say that it has "virtual desktops". In this case you could open shortcuts on your desktop in a different "virtual desktop" while not touching your current window layout.
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It's a classic example of the SNAFU principle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAFU_Principle
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It does. I've tried it just enough to verify that the feature exists, just now. When you win-tab instead of alt-tab, you get, in addition to the existing UI, a new band at the bottom showing all your desktops. I haven't used the feature beyond making a second one.
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Win+M and Win+Shift+M work better if you need to open something from the desktop and want to restore your other windows afterward.
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My employer has as one of its core principles (paraphrased), "We tell the truth and don't make excuses." Another of its core principles is, "We don't tolerate failure." In spite of the former, the result of the latter is more "employees1 inevitably distort the truth of reports when dealing with their superiors" than I have ever seen at any other company.
1 In this case, "employees" specifically means the layer or two of senior management just below the CEO.
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That was one of the first things I asked them, they said something along the lines of "We have applications that require admin rights, and it is too complicated to give some people rights and revoke the rights of others, so we just gave everyone admin rights."
Now imagine hearing that from the new owner of your company on a conference call, and not immediately ripping your hair out.
-Woods (Nobody calls me Woody, that would be weird)
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Actually, I have been feeling a little underlearned recently, so I prefer to solve problems on my own before going to my "Toolbox". Google is really a last-ditch effort for me. I fully expect myself to already know the solution to every problem I encounter, or at least have some kind of idea for a solution.
The difference is that I learn by doing, not by following instructions.
Also, we have a really weird setup, it is fairly unique in that if there are ever problems, nobody on Google will have ever had the same problems.
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Whereas in reality failures will happen. The key is to get over them, learn from them, and get on with trying to succeed. Preferably by not repeating your failures from the past, 'cos that's dumb.
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Some of us sometimes need to fail a few times before we learn. Too optimistic perhaps? "This time for sure!"
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Then it follows that no one tolerates|is doing anything, since doing things inevitably leads to some failure somewhere.
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Sounds like a just so story á la that Gladwell fraud. I'm sure you can find any number of companies that match this and an equal amount that don't.
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Follow-up Mandatory Dilbert comic: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-15 [image]
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Do not like the new minimalist+Infiniscroll™ look at dilbert.com
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TRWTF is other sites copycatting that WTF.
Just wait 3 - 5 years. Someone will say: "Hey! I got a cool new revolutionary idea! Let's use paged viewing!! We can then control how much content is pulled on a single page, do away with managing the page load of Infiniscroll™, make a PREDICTABLE scroll bar to work with on the right..."
Then TRWTF will be people complaining about Infiniscroll™ going away and why all the change?
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If they had a meta site, I bet some wag would suggest minimizing by removing the comic.
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That wouldn't make much difference, as it would leave plenty for all the ads…
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This is just one of dozens of reasons why putting ANYTHING on the desktop is terminally stupid. The original desktop (1984 Mac, for one) was there because , well, nobody thought it through. Under Windows, the desktop is an incomprehensible amalgalm of icons belonging to $USER/Desktop and AllUsers/Desktop and for all I know some other directories. Further, since you can't arrange your desktop by, say, ModificationDate or FileType, it's a terrible place to store files or shortcuts.
Teach your staff to keep an open Finder or WindowsExplorer window at all times, and to have a folder there with whatever collection of shortcuts they think they need. Of course, since there's this thing called a Dock (or equivalent), it's still a waste of time.
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Sometimes I like to put a wallpaper picture on my desktop.
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Sometimes I put [spoiler]fox[/spoiler] pictures on my desktop while posting them to Disourcse…
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I am not going to disagree with this; instead I will just say that I am super {triggerWord} happy that you are not in charge of any of the computers I use.
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And they work about as well as you'd expect for a version 0.1 product from Microsoft. There's no quick method of creating a new desktop and/or shoving a program onto it (there should be new context menu entries like many other virtual desktop GUIs have).
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Weren't we talking about the Windows desktop? Right click, sort by, date modified (or item type).... Or am I somehow falling for some sort of troll type thing or failing at sarcasm detection?
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That's how it works in Swahili in any case.
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You're not totally right (you can sort on the desktop), but I share your loathing towards files on the desktop. On every OS with a (or multiple) desktop(s). I can only bear using it as some kind of temporary folder.
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And for some reason the number of files on the desktop is directly proportional to computer knowledge. Not that I would make it a rule but it's very accurate with my personal observations.
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Since i always disable showing icons on the desktop... What does that day about me?
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It says "You are a masochist"?
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.... ick.
i was hoping it would be more like "i know how to navigate a file system to find things without having them constantly in my face and piled deep enough that not only can i not see that page 3 model that my coworker set my background to and i find too funny to change back but i also don't know what i have on there nor what i actually need to keep."
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There's a difference between putting 80 spreadsheet icons on your desktop and having a dozen or so relatively-commonly-used shortcuts to apps.
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that's what the task bar is for and jumplists (and windows search, Win+start typing in W7 and Win+S +start typing on windows 8+) are for.
:smiley: also autohotkey if you are feeling really fancy.
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You can only put so many things on the task bar.
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Interestingly enough, I find myself treating the Desktop as "just another folder to shove stuff in" much of the time, because I almost always have it covered up by maximized windows.